A couple milestones reached today, I turned 50 and TheDomains.com has reached 10,000 published posts. TheDomains.com first post was published on December 4, 2007. Since then Mike Berkens set out to discuss all things domaining, from advising people to help protect their domains by joining the ICA, to giving his take on the new gtld program before and after it launched. Hot takes on ICANN and … [Read more...]
Milestone: 100,000 approved comments
We have hit 100,000 approved comments on TheDomains.com, along with 1,006,800 spam comments. We were not running a contest but I planned on giving away a cash prize to the person who landed on 100,000 along with a charitable prize as well. John M hit the number 100,000 with his comment made this morning, and with that he won $25 and a $100 donation in his name to Elliot Silver's Pan Mass … [Read more...]
Our top 5 posts for 2016
Looking back at the posts that were written in 2016 that generated the most traffic here in 2016. Interestingly a post written in December of 2016 tops the list. The post which took a look at the all time most popular post on TheDomains.com, led the way. https://www.thedomains.com/2016/12/02/viewed-post-time-thedomains-com/ The second highest trafficked post dealt with Rams.com and Adam … [Read more...]
Merry Christmas
Mike and I would like to wish all our readers a very Merry Christmas. Thank you for spending a portion of your day reading our blog and thanks to each and every advertiser for being an ad partner. … [Read more...]
MotorcycleHelmets.com sold by GoDaddy – A look back at the previous negotiation
Michael Berkens purchased MotorcycleHelmets.com back in 2010, and it looks like GoDaddy/Namefind just sold the domain to a buyer using privacy protection at Name.com. The domain was bought in January 2010 at the TRAFFIC Las Vegas Auction. The domain was actually listed with a $50K reserve but immediately after it didn’t meet reserve Mike asked Rick Latona (the auction company) to reach out … [Read more...]
TheDomains.com turns 9 today
Today TheDomains.com turns 9 years old. Michael Berkens started back in 2007 with this post, Welcome December 4, 2007 by Michael Berkens The domains.com is now live. We are throwing our hat into the ring, to blog about all things domain. We acknowledge and thank some of the brilliant thinkers who are already blogging about the domain name industry. Many of those blogs appear … [Read more...]
The most viewed post all time on TheDomains.com
On Sunday TheDomains.com turns 9, we will have some fun posts and prizes on Sunday so make sure to stop by. In the meantime I thought it would be interesting to look back and see which post got the most attention out of 9,667 posts. The post that is number one by a wide margin, is a post written by Michael Berkens on June 24, 2014. "XNXX.com Loses UDRP On XXNX.com" That post received only 8 … [Read more...]